Design of Persia

Ali Khalighi/Khaliqi started his professional career when he was only 20 years old, He did amazing great job during his 28 years of experience in the fields of Designing, Manufacturing of carpet.

We should appreciate now that he resigned from police force school when he was 18 and decided to join Tehran Art university in carpet designing section, he knew inside of himself there is strong power of creativity since he was only 5 years old and play the piano.

Ali was born 1970, in Hamadan; A city of Iran.
His Father was originally from Tabriz and his Mother is from Tehran, because of his father job they had to move in several cities of Iran, it caused he become familiar with History of different cities and tradition Carpet.

Ali was from first group of the students who studied Carpet in Tehran Art university 27 years ago; With his creativity and talent ;He started his professional Career when he was only 18 years old;as a Carpet designer and head of design department in Iran Carpet Co ( a governmental organization in Iran); A career that later extended to Order Manager for 16 years.

Among this, Ali got great opportunities to study and Visit all part of carpet areas, cities and villages in Iran, he was directly involved to all process of Producing carpet. he also discovered the world of Carpet's business when he was Order manager in Iran Carpet Carpet . Later he established his own company Gerreh Co in 2007.

Since beginning; beside of his professional career Ali was teaching as Professor of several Art universities in Iran.

Ali is teaching in Tehran Art university , Sistan and Baluchistan University of Art and Architecture, Kerman Art University, Alzahra University, Sureh University, Payam Noor University, Training center of Imam KHomeini, Khorram Abad University

He is also responsible as :

Head of Scientific Committee of Carpet Design Olympiad for 8th years

Member of Iran Carpet Scientific Association since 2016

Member of Evaluation committee of Artists In Iranian research institute for cultural heritage

Member of Valuable Carpet Registration committee of Iran

Ali designed more than 1.500 carpets Before start his own Business in Gerreh Co. He is Famous as youngest successful designer who brought many new changes and items besides of traditional persian motifs while it kept harmony in design and colors.He has rich knowledge of Natural coloring of yarns that helped him in several projects spatially large scale carpets.

He designed and manufactured 500 Sqm Carpet For Al Alam palace; 60 Density in red background, Design & Manufacture 6.000 Sqm Carpet in 110 pieces, 2*3 , 5.000 Sqm Carpet in Different sizes for Samim Co in Japan.

Ali designed and some times manufactured masterpieces in the world, here are some very much particular ones :

1- Mohammed Al Ameen Mosque Carpet :

Ali Khaliqi with the name of his own company has completed the world's third largest carpet for Mohammad Al Amin Mosque in Muscat Oman.

Third largest carpet of the world has been woven in Neishaboor in Khorasan Razavi province of Iran. More than 400 women and 4000 fingers have been worked on this project for more than 2 years in about 200,0000 hours. This Carpet is 2400 Sqm. All process include procuring the raw materials, weaving , designing, coloring the yarns,and installation of carpet done by high knowledge of Art & engineering considerations.

The raw materials has been procured from best cottons and wools from Iran, New Zealand and Italy. Carpet is very special for bright color of background and stability of wool which is very unique.

2- Sheikh Zayed Mosque Carpet:

Ali Designed largest carpet in the world,which is in Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dubai.This carpet measures 5,627 m² (60,570 sq ft), and was made by around 1,200-1,300 carpet knotters.

The weight of this carpet is 35 ton and is predominantly made from wool (originating from New Zealand and Iran). There are 2,268,000,000 knots within the carpet and it took approximately two years to complete. the design took approximately 8 months, the knotting 12 months and the remaining time to transport,trim and weave the pieces together. The final single piece carpet is 5,700 square meters, about 70% being wool and the rest of 30% is cotton.

3- Grand Mosque of Sultan Qaboos Carpet:

Ali Khaliqi assists to designed Masterpieces of Carpets as second largest Carpet of the world for Grand Mosque of Sultan Qaboos in Oman. It was his first experience for large scale carpet which done Iran carpet Co ( A Governmental organization in Iran) The carpet measures over 70 × 60 meters, and covers the 4,343 square meter area of the praying hall.

He is Already living in Istanbul,Turkey and beside of commercial activities teaching Carpet Design in Sakarya University.
Ali got BA form Art university in Tehran (Carpet ) in 1990. Later, Culture and Islamic ministry of Iran gave him First Class Degree
He is regularly invited to share his thoughts and expertise, by giving lectures and speeches at conferences, workshops and universities. part of his lectures and workshops are:

· Lecture about " process of producing large Carpets " in Tabriz university 2015

· Lecture about " Persian Carpets in interior design " in Deco Conference in tehran 2014 held by Furniture & Decoration Council of Iran

· Lecture about 'Cam avari Borders " Turk Art,history and folklore Congress/Art Activities held by Konya Selcuk University 2016

· Lecture about " How to design the carpet" in Mashhad 2010

· Workshop in Sakarya university in turkey in 2014

· Workshop in Institute Coltore Minsk in Belarus 2008 & 2009

· Workshop in Carpet Museum of Iran in 2015

· Workshop in Shiraz art university 2015

· workshop in Tabriz university 2015

· Workshop in Iran Carpet Museum

He is Writer of " Ghalam & Ghali " Book in 2002 in farsi in Carpet design.

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